The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-04-29
DEER LoDGE, MoNTANA, APRIL 20, 1887


IL He thought Grant wo,,.d make puod
purchaser. He called ,,1,on him and told hin,
shat he Thought he ought to have A ho,,se.
that il was more befittinp his position 10
own his home. and that he would like to sell
him the Breckenridge mansion. -
al know that renlied Gen. Grant. abut it
is out Of the o,,estion. The house vo,, speak
of is very fine one and I would like to ow,,
it, but am too poo, ID think OF ANYTHING OF
the kindn AZ aslsi eSEG1ar, nj
Corbif then went b, New York and called
upor a number off canitalists He had inter-
views with Moses H. GrinnelL A. T. Stewart,
Vanderbilt and others. and .by repeating this
interview with Grant he raised pnrse OF $4O.-
900 for the n,,rchasa of the honse which he
had bought for $40 a4lD. and he raised a uurse
of 500. 600 additional to invest for Grant in
United States per cent bonds When Cor
bin called on Grant and t6ld him what lie had
done. Grant was OF course highly delighted
He introduced Corbin to his family and made
much of him. 1t was il, this way that Cor
bin met Grants sister. whom he afterward
married. When Grant left the army a purse
was raised for Gen. Sherman and this house
was bought for him of Grant at cost of
s7OOO0 ~.
all
the circle of statesmen who were in their
prime at the time of the war. Hannibal
Hamlin, it is true. still lives in Maine. Simon
Caneron talks "reminiscences at Harrisburg
and Judge Holt leads a retired life at Wash
ington. Judge Kelley. then Young man, is
still in public life. and there are few Others,
s,ich as Senator Sherman. who began their
career in the fsfties who still fio,,ra npon the
public stage Rem Wade died about ten
wears ago. and Zach Chandler followed him
few wears later. Stanton. Lincoln. Chase,
Seward. Giddings and Sumner have long
since passed away. and before another decade
has gone around none Of the statesmen Of war
days will be left.
called upon Ben Wade shortly before he
died and chatted with him about his remark
able career. He told me how, as boy, he
walked across the mountains from New Eng
land to Ohio, and understand he kept his
memory green to the day of his death
Shortly before he died he made a remark
about Beecber which is rather interesting
The story is told me 10y a leading citizen of
Jefferson, Ohio, where Wade lived and died,
and where his sons still reside. II was during
one Of Beecher's somerSaults upon religious
questions, and this gentleman, a Mr.. French,
brought in the paper describing SeecIier's new
attitude and laid it before Wade. Wade
read the paragraph which was pointed out to
him, and was then asked as to what he
thought of Beecher. sssess
He raised his hand and brought it tinwn
upon his knee with slap as be sid:
@Beecer! Hang Beecher! l don't like
Beecher! Beecher knocked hell out of re-
li''ion, and religion without hell is no',et'er
than pork witnout salt" ~ a
Ben Wade was noted for his emphatic ex-
preston He believed in calling spade
spade, and he rather prided himself upon the
title of "Bluff Ben Wade" He had chance
to be president at the time Lincoln was nonl-
mated, and have been told that there was
some talk of taking him up in place of Linz
coin, but that the other delegates were turned
from him by circular which stated that
there had been insanity i'm Ben Wades FAM
lily, that his health was poor and that it was
not safe to nominate him upon this ground.
This statement have never seen in news
paper, and have never heard anything in
northern Ohio which leads ME to believe that
it can have any truth in it,
So
Mr.. d. w. Bartlett, secretary of the Chi
nese legation, tells me an interesting story
about President Pierce. Bartlett, who was
young newspaper man at the time Pierce was
nominated, wrote campaign life of the can
didate The material for this he obtained
while ON visit to Pierce He says Pierce
was very fine looking man. He was tall
and slender and rather commanding in figure
He had fine, open face. high forehead,
gray hair, and eyes which were very bright
and piercing. There was nothing aristoclsatis
about him. he was as polite to beggar as
to prince, end as free to talk with country
farmer as to a United States senator.
Il was very fayorably impressed with him
during my visit said MIR. Bartlett, land
remember q curious story he told me OF his
school teaching days. He was educated, you
know. at Dickinson college, and he had
hardly enough money to satisfy bis wants.
During one OF his vacations he visited a col
lege friend in Maine and was here persuaded